Waiting for Sand to settle - Is there anymore I can do?

So its been a little over 2 days since adding the sand and the tank is still cloudy. I added 80lbs to a 90 gallon tank and while most of the sand has settled and I can see the back of the tank from the front, the cloudiness seems still too much. I added 2 45gal rated filters(1 HOB, 1 Canister) and it def. has been helping. I was thinking about adding some Water Clarifier too. Would that help in this situation? Is there anything else I can do? I'm transferring fish to the tank in less than a day and while the worms, pods, and snails are surviving fine in there, I'm kinda concerned about fish. I may have to setup a 10gal staging tank to hold them there will everything settles. On top of that I'm not happy with the aquascape so I'm going to have to move some rocks again too =/.

 

Did you put water in the tank that has already been cycled? If so, then the cloudiness from the sand shouldn't affect the fish... especially if it has already been settling for a couple days.

If you used water that you just made and it hasn't been cycled yet, I definitely wouldn't start adding any fish yet. You'll put too much of a bio-load on the tank and things may turn south quickly.

 

I have seeded the tank with 15 gallons of my current tank water and have about 10 lbs of gravel in there from the other tank as well so I think that's enough to start the process. I've been monitoring the params, and I have 0ammonia, 0 nitrites, and like 5 ppm of nitrates so I think the water is going to be safe for them, just concerned they will get stressed out.

 

15 gallons cycled for a 90 gallon tank probably isn't enough in my opinion. How many fish are you planning on putting in?

 

I agree 15 gallons to seed a 90 gallon tank does not seem like enough do you think you could add more?

 

did u rinse the new sand before you put it in?

 

put some fine filter media in the filters

 

The sand was live sand and was recommended not to rinse before hand for good reason.

- 15 gallons was merely to balance out some nitrates with the clean water (Current tank has 20-25ppm of nitrates so would be kinda a shocker for the fish). The water itself contains little to no bacteria. The 10 lbs of gravel and 20 lbs of live rock contain the beneficial bacteria I need to seed the tank. I will try to add another 5-10 lbs of gravel to create a pod rumble pile, as well as top the tank off with my current tank water which will probably bring the totals closer to 20-25 gallons, and 20 lbs of gravel.

The transfer only includes 1 clownfish, 1 sailfin blenny, and a hermit crabs so the bioload is actually very small for a 90 gallon tank. I have been dumping pods, snails, and worms in the tank for the last 2 days and the majority of snails and worms have survived. There was some die off of the smaller pods but the larger ones found the rocks and seem to be doing fine. Any food I drop in the tank is usually gone within an hour.

Anyways, on to the issue I was trying to resolve which was the cloudiness. I decided to go ahead and add some water clarifier. It took about an hour and now the water is looking great. It is a good thing to know in the future. Thanks everyone for your input, good to hear others opinions.